Moving my SORNd van

[David and Sally]

That's easy, if the VIN number is on top of the dash, as most are, just stick a rag over it.
If it's anywhere else it's out of sight.

VIN plate shows through the windscreen. Not possible to put a rag over it inside.

 

[Coolcats]

There is a world of difference between an emergency repair following a burst pipe and a planned improvement because you want to have a fancy new driveway laid. The OP does not speak of an emergency. Indeed the time the move took tells us that it was not an emergency.

Plainly, if you are going to take the risk, it would be sensible to document the event (move off and back onto the drive within 24 hours or whatever) so that you have evidence that you observed the law in spirit in case the DVLA turn up. The risks are low but not negligible. If I were the man from the DVLA I would say "Don't do it again but I am taking no action this time."

Are you suggesting that you gave DVLA notice of your activities or that nobody ever challenged you?

DVLA are not interested, you sorn a vehicle which means it’s off the road you drive to a place of repair which is within their guidelines you get an MOT and you advise them it’s now back on the road and that my friend is all legitimate because you can’t have a vehicle on the road until you MOT and tax it and of course no MOT no Tax…..you see where I’m going with this…. It stays sorned until it’s road legal

 

[PlacidoD]

DVLA are not interested, you sorn a vehicle which means it’s off the road you drive to a place of repair which is within their guidelines you get an MOT and you advise them it’s now back on the road and that my friend is all legitimate because you can’t have a vehicle on the road until you MOT and tax it and of course no MOT no Tax…..you see where I’m going with this…. It stays sorned until it’s road legal

(1) "DVLA are not interested..." -See #16 - "dvla mobile unit".
(2) "... and you advise them it’s now back on the road ..." That is a world away from what the OP was doing. You are comparing apples with oranges. He was/is not putting the vehicle back on the road but rather back on his drive still SORN'd.

But see also my post below.

 

[PlacidoD]

You an book an mot any time for example
The original is August
Book and pass one in December and the year will start from December
It's a way of moving it to a more convenient time

Yes of course you can. I did query whether it would work. On reflection it would do. A mid year MOT is often done when buying a used car by way of example as an indication it is roadworthy at time of sale and most of them will be SORN'd. And certainly that is probable with a sub-3.5 kg MoHo! So that should work!

 

[Coolcats]

Yes of course you can. I did query whether it would work. On reflection it would do. A mid year MOT is often done when buying a used car by way of example as an indication it is roadworthy at time of sale and most of them will be SORN'd. And certainly that is probable with a sub-3.5 kg MoHo! So that should work!

The OP mentioned it was a private road and wanted to park in it for a few hours.

Work is being carried out on their driveway

The key here is it’s a private road…..the vehicle will still be insured

DVLA are hardly scouring the private roadways searching for Sorned vehicles…that would be a road to madness and a total surveillance state. We are not quite there yet.

As I have stated taking sorned vehicles back and forth on public roads has never raised an eyebrow from the DVLA…..

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[PlacidoD]

The OP mentioned it was a private road and wanted to park in it for a few hours.

Work is being carried out on their driveway

The key here is it’s a private road…..the vehicle will still be insured

DVLA are hardly scouring the private roadways searching for Sorned vehicles…that would be a road to madness and a total surveillance state. We are not quite there yet.

As I have stated taking sorned vehicles back and forth on public roads has never raised an eyebrow from the DVLA…..

Erm ... we moved on from a discussion about private roads a long way back in this thread. If you are doing a round trip of 150 miles on a SORN'd vehicle (your earlier posts) that will not be on a private road. The private road element of this thread is not in dispute and never has been by me.

Good luck to you covering such distances. I would not take the risk to save £30.00. Of course the further you travel the greater the risk that you will encounter the DVLA roving patrol mentioned in this thread. And I would not want to run the risk of being in an RTA even if not my fault where the police get called out in a SORN'd vehicle. You plainly have more time to deal with the consequences than I have and are, shall we say, less risk averse than I am.

 

[Coolcats]

Erm ... we moved on from a discussion about private roads a long way back in this thread. If you are doing a round trip of 150 miles on a SORN'd vehicle (your earlier posts) that will not be on a private road. The private road element of this thread is not in dispute and never has been by me.

Good luck to you covering such distances. I would not take the risk to save £30.00. Of course the further you travel the greater the risk that you will encounter the DVLA roving patrol mentioned in this thread. And I would not want to run the risk of being in an RTA even if not my fault where the police get called out in a SORN'd vehicle. You plainly have more time to deal with the consequences than I have and are, shall we say, less risk averse than I am.

Let’s get some perspective here, the vehicle I sorned is very well maintained and has to go to a specialist so I’m not joy riding (although it’s a joyful experience driving said machine) it is booked in and therefore legal the DVLA will not prosecute me, I cannot with the best will in the world unsorn the vehicle as I can’t tax it until it has an MOT. So the place of repair undertakes the task including MOT, I am entitled to drive the vehicle home then get on line and tax and unsorn

Honestly some people seem to want to make a mountain out of nowt

 

[Minxy]

it is booked in and therefore legal

Only if the vehicle is safe to drive, ie the repair it's booked in for isn't to make it roadworthy as that would mean it wasn't thus shouldn't be driven.

 

[Coolcats]

Only if the vehicle is safe to drive, ie the repair it's booked in for isn't to make it roadworthy as that would mean it wasn't thus shouldn't be driven.

Agreed

but that applies to any vehicle sorned taxed insured or not, if your bumper is missing an exhaust is hanging loose a wheel nut missing a damaged windscreen. In which case either a mobile repairer or on the back of a truck !

I did start by saying:

“Let’s get some perspective here, the vehicle I sorned is very well maintained and has to go to a specialist”